Senior Security Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 697 701
Rank change year-on-year +214 +4 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 88 68 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.092% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.097% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 35 62 50
10th Percentile £42,768 £50,000 £46,268
25th Percentile - £56,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile - £67,968 £76,316
90th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £97,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Security Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +97 44 - - 7
West Midlands +88 28 - - 4
North of England +36 26 £55,000 -12.40% 7
North West +11 26 £55,000 -12.40% 4
East Midlands +52 16 - - 3
South East +93 13 £57,500 -4.17% 21
East of England +46 4 £42,085 - 1
South West +114 1 £77,500 +30.20% 5
Senior Security Engineer
UK

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Senior Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 74 (84.09%) Degree
2 64 (72.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 57 (64.77%) Cybersecurity
4 49 (55.68%) Risk Management
5 48 (54.55%) Computer Science
6 20 (22.73%) Mathematics
6 20 (22.73%) Physics
6 20 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (22.73%) Systems Engineering
6 20 (22.73%) Product Strategy
7 7 (7.95%) FortiGate
7 7 (7.95%) AWS
7 7 (7.95%) Firewall
8 6 (6.82%) Juniper
8 6 (6.82%) Cisco
8 6 (6.82%) Microsoft
8 6 (6.82%) CISSP
8 6 (6.82%) Incident Response
9 5 (5.68%) Cloud Security
9 5 (5.68%) Network Security
9 5 (5.68%) Software Engineering
9 5 (5.68%) Security Architecture
9 5 (5.68%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.68%) TypeScript
9 5 (5.68%) React
10 4 (4.55%) NCSC
10 4 (4.55%) NIST
10 4 (4.55%) Master's Degree
10 4 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.41%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.95%) AWS
2 5 (5.68%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (2.27%) Azure
3 2 (2.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.95%) Firewall
2 5 (5.68%) Network Security
3 4 (4.55%) HTTP
3 4 (4.55%) HTTPS
3 4 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.41%) BGP
4 3 (3.41%) MPLS
4 3 (3.41%) SD-WAN
4 3 (3.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Bitbucket
1 3 (3.41%) JIRA
General
1 4 (4.55%) Local Government
1 4 (4.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (2.27%) Law
2 2 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
1 5 (5.68%) React
2 3 (3.41%) REST
2 3 (3.41%) Web Services
3 1 (1.14%) OAuth
3 1 (1.14%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.55%) Mobile App
1 4 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.41%) PMI
2 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.14%) CCTV
4 1 (1.14%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) Android
1 4 (4.55%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.41%) Linux
2 3 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (64.77%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (55.68%) Risk Management
3 48 (54.55%) Computer Science
4 20 (22.73%) Mathematics
4 20 (22.73%) Physics
4 20 (22.73%) Product Strategy
4 20 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (22.73%) Systems Engineering
5 6 (6.82%) Incident Response
6 5 (5.68%) Cloud Security
6 5 (5.68%) Security Architecture
6 5 (5.68%) Software Engineering
7 4 (4.55%) Application Security
7 4 (4.55%) Cryptography
7 4 (4.55%) ITIL
7 4 (4.55%) Key Management
7 4 (4.55%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (4.55%) Reverse Engineering
7 4 (4.55%) Threat Intelligence
7 4 (4.55%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.68%) TypeScript
2 4 (4.55%) C
2 4 (4.55%) C++
2 4 (4.55%) Java
2 4 (4.55%) Kotlin
2 4 (4.55%) Objective-C
2 4 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 74 (84.09%) Degree
2 64 (72.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (6.82%) CISSP
4 4 (4.55%) CEH
4 4 (4.55%) CISM
4 4 (4.55%) CREST Certified
4 4 (4.55%) GIAC
4 4 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (4.55%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.41%) CCNP
5 3 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.41%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.27%) CCFP
6 2 (2.27%) EnCE
6 2 (2.27%) GCFA
6 2 (2.27%) GCFE
6 2 (2.27%) GREM
6 2 (2.27%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.55%) NCSC
1 4 (4.55%) NIST
2 1 (1.14%) JSP 440
Systems Management
1 7 (7.95%) FortiGate
2 4 (4.55%) Nessus
3 2 (2.27%) EnCase
3 2 (2.27%) FTK
3 2 (2.27%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 6 (6.82%) Cisco
1 6 (6.82%) Juniper
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.55%) Ping Identity
2 4 (4.55%) Qualys
2 4 (4.55%) Tenable
3 3 (3.41%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.41%) Fortinet
3 3 (3.41%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.27%) FireEye
4 2 (2.27%) NetWitness
4 2 (2.27%) Splunk